Lean Manufacturing

This book uses an easy-to-follow story format to simplify and explain Hoshin Kanri. Supplying clear explanations of the steps of Hoshin Kanri, it advocates using Hoshin as an important tool for improving the existing planning and execution system while simultaneously moving the culture of the organi..

Continuous generation and implementation of ideas is critical to creating an environment that helps foster the development of improvement techniques. The Basics of Idea Generation provides a cost-effective method that can help inspire employees to consistently identify and implement new ideas, using..

This book tells you how, why, and when you should perform certain audio postproduction tasks within Soundtrack Pro while editing your video in the Final Cut Studio suite. Intertwining video editing workflows with audio editing workflows for video editors using Final Cut Studio, it also describes in-..

Accessible to the Lean novice and shop floor employee, this book explores line balancing and the pre-assembly of components into a finished product in a just-in-time fashion (JIT Kitting). It explains how to make proper use time studies, develop yamazumi charts, discover and eliminate waste, balance..

The Basics of Quality Auditing..

The Basics of Quality Auditing..

Since Henry Ford sent the first chassis down an assembly line, line balancing issues have proven hard to eradicate. Often time the achievement of TAKT is an illusion. This book demonstrates ways to recognize weak links and continually solve them. It offers rules, tools (including simulation software..

This book is based on the lessons drawn from case studies and offfers a commonsense rationale for the power of the BoH proposition. The framework is pragmatic -- a framework and a process -- and enables companies to develop and confidently implement value-adding strategies based on the BoH propositi..

Detailing the differences between cost accounting and cost management, this book follows a fictional manufacturing entity embarking on a Lean change management journey for the second time—having failed at its first attempt at Lean implementation a few years earlier. As the story progresses, readers ..

Which organizations provide customer satisfaction or inspire customer loyalty? Which is more important? This book gives detailed examples of how to deploy the Kano model of customer service excellence in a manufacturing setting, as well as, in service and other environments. Readers will learn how t..

This book presents a roadmap on how to implement continuous process improvement to US educational institutions. It introduces the background information on the TLS (Theory of Constraints - Lean - Six Sigma) Continuum and the wastes within the educational system...

The Field Guide to Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma provides detailed guidance on how to utilize the Six Sigma methodology and the TLS Continuum to achieve the business model that is required to thrive in today’s business environment. The book demonstrates a clear path to continuous improve..